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Episodic Positive Selection in the Evolution of Avian Toll-Like Receptor Innate Immunity Genes

Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a family of conserved pattern-recognition molecules responsible for initiating innate and acquired immune responses. Because they play a key role in host defence, these genes have received increasing interest in the evolutionary and population genetics literature, as t...

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Autores principales: Grueber, Catherine E., Wallis, Graham P., Jamieson, Ian G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3940441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24595315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089632